A serious train to check the metal of Britain and France’s mixed air energy is underway within the UK.
Train Succesful Eagle is the air part of Train Joint Warrior, a twice yearly, multinational, tri-service army train – one of many largest of its form in Europe.
It brings the RAF and its French counterparts collectively to check the challenges that may very well be confronted by a British-French Expeditionary Wing aiding an abroad energy beneath menace.
This yr is the primary time it has been led by a joint staff of French and British air commanders, a transfer that paves the best way to continued cooperation and coaching at a strategic stage.
The 2 nations have labored collectively in earlier conflicts, together with in Libya and Mali in recent times.
British Forces News spoke to Group Captain Johnny Stringer, Expeditionary Air Wing Commander and requested what was being examined on this train.
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